All entries from December 2012

Friday December 21, 2012 (26 months ago)

Hear the band play “Steel and Blood,” “Empty Party Rooms,” and “Diamond Lightning” from their new album Infinity Overhead plus a special web-exclusive version of “Pachuca Sunrise” from the band’s 2005 release on Suicide Squeeze Records, Menos el Oso.

Friday December 14, 2012 (27 months ago)

Sea Wolf recently visited Bonnaroo HQ to play a few songs from Old World Romance including “Old Friend” for a new feature they call “Mom, Meet The Band.” Watch the performance and brief interview above, and make sure to catch Sea Wolf on tour in January!

Friday December 14, 2012 (27 months ago)

While on their recent U.S. tour, Silversun Pickups stopped by the JBTV Studios in Chicago for a special performance of “The Pit,” “Mean Spirits,” “Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings),” and “Skin Graph” from their new album Neck Of The Woods.

Wednesday December 12, 2012 (27 months ago)

Royal Teeth are giving away a new holiday song called “All I Want” along with “Wild” from their Act Naturally EP for FREE on their official website! All it costs is one quick tweet and the MP3s are yours!

“Wild” has been steadily climbing the charts on SiriusXM Alt Nation, and this week broke into the Top 10! Keep on tweeting @altnation & #alt18 and keep it moving up!

After an amazing 2012, Royal Teeth are hitting the road for the a few more shows this winter. Make sure to come on out and dance your booty off.

Thursday December 6, 2012 (27 months ago)

Perhaps it’s bold these days to embark upon a musical project for the sake of art alone, but that’s exactly what Dangerbird Records co-founder & musician, Peter Walker (Eulogies) has done.

Assembling an all-star cast of stalwart music makers, including Denny Weston Jr. who plays drums in the longstanding West Coast indie outfit, Earlimart, James King, sophisto sax dude from Fitz and The Tantrums and Justin Meldal-Johnsen, (whose credits include Nine Inch Nails and Beck) on the bass, Walker presents Broadheds — a new project that, while haphazardly invoking the universal contributions of James Chance and the Contortions, Bad Manners and a man named Joe Strummer in equal parts, is undeniably its own thing.

And so it is that Broadhed’s debut album is set for release on, you guessed it, Dangerbird this spring—executive produced by Meldal-Johnsen with all songs written by Walker, who says of the outfit, “…It’s basically a dream band that came together for 3 or 4 days in the studio with a collective enthusiasm for high-energy, raw, fun songs. But what sets this experience apart for me is the band’s passion to stick together and bring the music to a live setting.”

But the first order of business here is to mention that two of the epic art punk ejacs to be included on the aforementioned album, the ska set “Something All Our Own” and the record’s ecstatic straight-up old school punk kick off, “Nothing That I Care About,” (FREEDOWNLOAD at BROADHEDS.COM) will be interspersed with the action in tonight’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy on ABC.

“This is such an exciting way to introduce the music. The people behind the scenes at Grey’s Anatomy were fans of the last Eulogies record and featured the lead track on one of their episodes last year,” says Walker of the opportunity. “It’s so great to see they are down with this new project as well.”

Also worth an initial mention is that Broadheds have teamed up with celebrated LA-based artist/illustrator, Mark Todd for a 62-page book/compendium to be released along with the musical content, comprising the album packaging.